Question on Alignment

[anish singh]

Don't top post.


On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Omkar Houddin <ophouddin22 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sorry I meant 32 byte....!!!

Mostly memory returned from kmalloc is aligned for generic
data types but incase you want to set it explicitly you can
use below macro:

ALIGN(returned_memory, 32);


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> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 9:20 PM, anish singh <anish198519851985 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Shyam Sunkara <ophouddin22 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi All,
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>>> I'm allocating a memory for linux driver using the kmalloc and I need to align it to 32 bit how do I do it?
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>> Did you mean 32 bit or byte?
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>>> Thank you,
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>>> Regards,
>>> Omk
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